memory

• coding is the format in which information is stored
• capacity is the amount of information that can be stored
• duration is the length of time it can be stored
• psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour
• with short term memory participants performed worse on acoustically similair words
• acoustically similar words confuse the short term memory
• short term memory codes acoustically
• long term memory codes semantically
• the long term memory confuses words of the same meaning
• millers magic number is 7 +/- 2
• chunking helps memory
• the multi store model suggests our memory is made up of three stores. The Sensory store, The Short-term memory store and the Long-term memory store. It also describes how information is transferred or lost between each stores.
• the sensory register is the memory stores for each of our five senses, visions (iconic store), hearing (echoic store) and more.
• coding in the ionic sensory register is visual
• coding in the echoic register is acoustic
• the capacity of the sensory register is huge
• the duration of the sensory register is less than half a second
• the three types of long term memory are , episodic, semantic and procedural.
• episodic memory is recalling episodes from our lives, remembering when they happened as well as what happened clearly.
• semantic memory is the knowledge of what words mean, the smell of something and concepts, etc.
• procedural memory is the memory for actions and skills, these are recalled without conscious or effort.
• The short term memory has four different components. The central executive , the phonological group, the visuo-spatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer.
• the central executive supervisors and monitors incoming data, it allocates 'slave systems' to tasks.
• the central executive doesn't code info.
• the central executives capacity is limited
• The phonological loop is divided into the phonological store and the articulatory process.
• the phonological store, stores the words you hear.
• the articulatory process allows maintenance rehearsal
• the phonological loop codes acoustically
• the capacity of the phonological loop is two seconds
• the visuo-spatial sketchpad stores visual/ spatial information
• the visuo-spatial sketchpad is divided into the visual cache and the inner scribe
• the visual cache stores visual data
• the inner scribe records the arrangement of objects.
• The visuo-spatial sketchpad codes visually or spatially.
• the visuo-spatial sketchpads capacity is limited
• the episodic buffer is a temporary store for information, integrating the visual, spatial and acoustic
• the episodic memory codes visually, spatially and acoustically.
• the episodic memorys capacity is limited
• proactive interference is when old memories interfere with new memories